Madeline "Marina Kassova" Katz (1966 - 2016)
Marina Kassova was known as Madeline Katz to her friends in High School and College. She also had a Masters Degree. Marina had a warm and scintillating personality and exceptional charisma.
She played the piano beautifully, especially Chopin. When she met people, she could usually converse fairly fluently in their language, even sign language. Her significant other for 14 years was Albert Spatola who filmed her and put her on YOUTUBE.
I was her publicist and manager for two years.
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In 1966, in the year that Madeline "Marina Kassova" Katz was born, on September 8th, the first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," was broadcast on NBC. The plot concerned a creature that sucked salt from human bodies. The original series only aired for 3 seasons due to low ratings.
In 1972, she was just 6 years old when on November 7th, Richard Nixon won re-election, amidst the dawning knowledge of the Watergate scandal, by 60.7% to anti-war candidate George McGovern's 37.5%.
In 1986, Madeline was 20 years old when on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All seven crew members died. The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral.
In 1988, by the time she was 22 years old, on December 16th, 1988 the popular film Rain Man was released. Featuring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. this film brought attention to autistic savants and was based on the "megasavant" Laurence Kim Peek. The film would later go to win four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role.
In 1997, at the age of 31 years old, Madeline was alive when on July 1st, Hong Kong was returned to China. In 1898, Great Britain was awarded Hong Kong for 99 years. In a subsequent agreement, China agreed to allow Hong Kong to remain capitalist. So the handing over of the area ended British rule but did not change the economic system of Hong Kong.
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